Re: sysconf (was Re: RLIM_INFINITY inconsistency between archs)

From: Christoph Hellwig (hch@ns.lst.de)
Date: Fri Jul 28 2000 - 02:55:59 EST

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On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 09:11:15AM +0200, bert hubert wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 12:29:22AM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> > > Suggestion for glibc NGROUPS_MAX problem: in the typical way of
> > > hacking around lack of kernel support, have glibc run a setuid-root
> > > executable that reads kernel memory. Use the System.map file to
> >
> > Do that and I'll find time to port *BSD libc to Linux.

BSD (at least FreeBSD) hast libc_r fot reenetrant functions.
Much cleaner solution then bloating libc with that.

Christoph

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